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We are excited to tell you about MinnesotaNow and to provide you with an incredible networking event!

We are going to fill the newest and most beautiful event space in Downtown Minneapolis, the Fountain Room at the Lumber Exchange.

We’ve been planning this event since mid-2016—we had to wait for the venue be constructed, we needed our entertainers to return from their national tour, and we needed Minnesota to pass laws to allow for our new, grassroots organization, MinnesotaNow.

It’s all coming together, so we say: you’re awesome, but Minnesota, Now is the time to shed (some of) your modesty and reveal your accelerating awesomeness to the world.

The purpose of our Launch Gala is to give a phenomenal experience to our guests, tell you about the purpose of MinnesotaNow, a new nonprofit, and how we’re going to make Minnesota even more awesome!

Until June 10, book a stay at the AC Hotel for highly discounted rates (they're usually $280):Book your group rate for Minnesota Now Gala We will have a gala debriefing in the morning at 8:30. Financial update, and next steps.

Small business and entrepreneurship should be more than a lot of hard work and late nights. At this event, we’ll tell you what MinnesotaNow will accomplish and how we will get there.

We will have media and press coverage, and venture capitalists attending to learn about our organization.

MinnesotaNow is dedicated to celebrating everything great about Minnesota—our hockey, our local beers, our colleges, our technology & business innovation powerhouses, and our toughness from winter. MinnesotaNow celebrates everything in the near future for Minnesota—our fashion design influence, our innovative market for venture capital investing, our nation-leading educational landscape, the way we embrace and foster equality for persons of all backgrounds, and our continued emphasis on success for everyone. It’s vital for us to correct all of this in order to become a nation-leading stage.

We’re going to celebrate everything Minnesota is and everything Minnesota could be.Now is the time to take action. The stars have aligned for Minnesota.

Come meet other up-and-coming movers in the Cities as you enjoy formidable entertainment, hear guest speakers, and sip on some local craft-brew favorites at MinnesotaNow’s launch event.

Our guest speakers will also tell you more about MinnesotaNow and its charitable mission.

Doors will open at 6:45, and our programming will begin at 7:30.

Night owls will enjoy a live DJ and dance party.

Cost: $15.00 – donations encouraged.

MinnesotaNow has applied for and is expected to receive 501(c)(3) status.

We have so much entertainment and time for socializing, we’ll just barely get out what MinnesotaNow is about, well, besides awesomeness and grand events!

Schedule:Thursday Evening6:45 Doors will open7:30 Program will beginAmple socializing time, professional dancers, and the Bearded Men, plus speakers who are at the top of their industry.10:00 Toast to Minnesota, MinnesotaNow, and the Future10:30 Dance Party Begins1:00 Event ends